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Simon Callow and Swimming Pools

Simon Callow on bringing War Horse to Coventry Cathedral, as part of the Biggest Weekend Fringe Festival. Aquatic designer Roger Currie on what's hot in the world of pool design.

The sensational Simon Callow tells Chris about bringing a special performance of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse to Coventry Cathedral with the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra, as part of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Music's Biggest Weekend Fringe Festival. Aquatic designer Roger Currie who's worked on Olympic pools and water parks answers Chris's pool ponderings from average depths to underwater music and what's hot in the world of swimming pool design. Vassos chats to ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 5 Live's Robbie Savage in the Sports Locker ahead of the Champions League semi-final between Liverpool and Roma. We hear your top tenuous claims to facts better than Chris's if you travel at the speed of light to our nearest other galaxy, Andromeda, it will take you 2.5 million years! Julia Neuberger, Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue provides the daily Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 24 Apr 2018 06:30
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    Lucky You

    • Lightning Seeds - Jollification.
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  • John Newman

    Fire In Me

    • Revolve.
    • Island.

  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    Nowhere To Run

    • Motown - The Hits Collection Vol.2.
    • Motown.

  • Duran Duran

    Girls On Film

    • Duran Duran - Decade.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • OMC

    How Bizarre

    • Now 34 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Banana Splits

    The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)

    • Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
    • TVT Records.

  • Jim Diamond

    Hi Ho Silver

    • Desire For Freedom.
    • A&M.
    • 5.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Stop Me From Falling (feat. Gente de Zona)

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Since U Been Gone

    • Now 62 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Monkees

    Daydream Believer

    • The Definitive Monkees.
    • Warner Strategic Marketing.
    • 5.

  • UB40 featuring Ali Campbell & Astro

    How Could I Leave

    • A Real Labour Of Love.
    • Universal.

  • Sister Sledge

    We Are Family

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Prince

    Alphabet St.

    • 4Ever.
    • Paisley Park.

  • Sugababes

    Push The Button

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Spandau Ballet

    Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)

    • Greatest Hits Of The 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Texas

    Black Eyed Boy

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Sting & Shaggy

    Don't Make Me Wait

    • 44/876.
    • Polydor.
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  • Scissor Sisters

    Only The Horses

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Michael Jackson

    Beat It

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Depeche Mode

    Just Can't Get Enough

    • Me Without You O.S.T. - Various.
    • Columbia.

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Sweet Little Mystery

    • Wet Wet Wet - Greatest Hits & More.
    • Precious Organisation.

  • Roger Daltrey

    As Long As I Have You

  • Pink Floyd

    Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

    • Pink Floyd.
    • Harvest.

  • Adam and the Ants

    Antmusic

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Josh Groban

    Symphony

    • Bridges.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Status Quo

    That's A Fact

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Music On Demand.
    • 001.

  • Years & Years

    Shine

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    • Polydor.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Julia Neuberger Senior Rabbi at the west London Synagogue:

You might think there could be no more Holocaust memoirs. You might think those who experienced the extermination camps would have told their stories by now. But you’d be wrong. There are still more stories coming out, still more very elderly survivors of the concentration camps wanting to tell their stories before they die. And one of those stories is about the late Lale Sokolov, which we heard at my synagogue on Sunday night. He was the tattooist of Auschwitz, and he needed to know his story was going to be told before he was ready prepare to die. People need to tell their stories, even if they wait many years to do it, even- as protective parents- if they haven’t told their children either. So more and more stories are emerging, because people in their 90s refuse to die before their stories are told.

Now, Holocaust stories are extreme- the need to tell exceptional stories, however distressing, is understandable. Most of us have much more ordinary stories, yet we need to tell them. As a young rabbi, a very sick member of my congregation told me how terrible it was to face your death with your story untold and your music still inside you. Everyone has a story, he said, and everyone should tell it. It’s what we leave behind as a legacy. He was right- I want to tell my story too. I’m the child of a refugee from Nazi Germany and a father who fought in World War II. I was fortunate enough to live through peacetime, unlike my parents. But that doesn’t mean there’s no story there!

The Hebrew Bible frequently tells us to tell our children why we do what we do: β€œYou shall tell your son… saying: β€˜It is because of what God did for me when I came out of Egypt.” We all need to tell our children our stories. So, whether our stories are extreme, which the whole world should know about, or whether, like me, we’ve been lucky enough to live ordinary peaceful lives, we shouldn’t die with our stories still inside us. There’s always a story to tell.

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